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With the development of machine learning and data science, data sharing is very common between companies and research institutes to avoid data scarcity. However, sharing original datasets that contain private information can cause privacy…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-11-30 Mingchen Li , Di Zhuang , J. Morris Chang

Access to genomic data is highly regulated due to its sensitive nature. While safeguards are essential, cumbersome data access processes pose a significant barrier to the development of AI methods for genomics. Synthetic data generation can…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-05-01 Daniil Filienko , Martine De Cock , Sikha Pentyala

How to synthesize a dataset while achieving differential privacy for AI model training is a meaningful but challenging problem. To address this problem, state-of-the-art methods first select original private dataset's multiple…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2026-04-20 Mingxuan Jia , Wen Huang , Weixin Zhao , Xingyi Wang , Jian Peng , Zhishuo Zhang

Generative models trained with Differential Privacy (DP) are becoming increasingly prominent in the creation of synthetic data for downstream applications. Existing literature, however, primarily focuses on basic benchmarking datasets and…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2024-02-08 Dingfan Chen , Marie Oestreich , Tejumade Afonja , Raouf Kerkouche , Matthias Becker , Mario Fritz

The widespread use of big data across sectors has raised major privacy concerns, especially when sensitive information is shared or analyzed. Regulations such as GDPR and HIPAA impose strict controls on data handling, making it difficult to…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-12-10 Anantaa Kotal , Anupam Joshi

Face recognition models are trained on large-scale datasets, which have privacy and ethical concerns. Lately, the use of synthetic data to complement or replace genuine data for the training of face recognition models has been proposed.…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-06-10 David Geissbühler , Hatef Otroshi Shahreza , Sébastien Marcel

Differentially private synthetic data is a promising alternative for sensitive data release. Many differentially private generative models have been proposed in the literature. Unfortunately, they all suffer from the low utility of the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2023-04-25 Chih-Hsun Lin , Chia-Yi Hsu , Chia-Mu Yu , Yang Cao , Chun-Ying Huang

Despite several works that succeed in generating synthetic data with differential privacy (DP) guarantees, they are inadequate for generating high-quality synthetic data when the input data has missing values. In this work, we formalize the…

Databases · Computer Science 2025-11-06 Shubhankar Mohapatra , Jianqiao Zong , Florian Kerschbaum , Xi He

As synthetic data becomes increasingly popular in machine learning tasks, numerous methods--without formal differential privacy guarantees--use synthetic data for training. These methods often claim, either explicitly or implicitly, to…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-02-19 Yunpeng Zhao , Jie Zhang

In this work, we develop a privacy-by-design generative model for synthesizing the activity diary of the travel population using state-of-art deep learning approaches. This proposed approach extends literature on population synthesis by…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2021-01-01 Godwin Badu-Marfo , Bilal Farooq , Zachary Patterson

Background: Synthetic data has been proposed as a solution for sharing anonymized versions of sensitive biomedical datasets. Ideally, synthetic data should preserve the structure and statistical properties of the original data, while…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2024-10-24 Ileana Montoya Perez , Parisa Movahedi , Valtteri Nieminen , Antti Airola , Tapio Pahikkala

Differentially Private Synthetic Data Generation (DP-SDG) is a key enabler of private and secure tabular-data sharing, producing artificial data that carries through the underlying statistical properties of the input data. This typically…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-04-16 Samuel Maddock , Shripad Gade , Graham Cormode , Will Bullock

Differentially private (DP) synthetic data generation is a practical method for improving access to data as a means to encourage productive partnerships. One issue inherent to DP is that the "privacy budget" is generally "spent" evenly…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2022-08-11 Lucas Rosenblatt , Joshua Allen , Julia Stoyanovich

There is a need for synthetic training and test datasets that replicate statistical distributions of original datasets without compromising their confidentiality. A lot of research has been done in leveraging Generative Adversarial Networks…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2026-02-06 Laura Plein , Alexi Turcotte , Arina Hallemans , Andreas Zeller

Modern machine learning models heavily rely on large datasets that often include sensitive and private information, raising serious privacy concerns. Differentially private (DP) data generation offers a solution by creating synthetic…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2025-08-05 Runkai Zheng , Vishnu Asutosh Dasu , Yinong Oliver Wang , Haohan Wang , Fernando De la Torre

As deep learning-based, data-driven information extraction systems become increasingly integrated into modern document processing workflows, one primary concern is the risk of malicious leakage of sensitive private data from these systems.…

Cryptography and Security · Computer Science 2025-08-07 Saifullah Saifullah , Stefan Agne , Andreas Dengel , Sheraz Ahmed

This article provides a comprehensive synthesis of the recent developments in synthetic data generation via deep generative models, focusing on tabular datasets. We specifically outline the importance of synthetic data generation in the…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2023-08-29 Conor Hassan , Robert Salomone , Kerrie Mengersen

Acquiring large quantities of data and annotations is known to be effective for developing high-performing deep learning models, but is difficult and expensive to do in the healthcare context. Adding synthetic training data using generative…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2023-10-06 Menghan Yu , Sourabh Kulhare , Courosh Mehanian , Charles B Delahunt , Daniel E Shea , Zohreh Laverriere , Ishan Shah , Matthew P Horning

Synthetic data from generative models emerges as the privacy-preserving data sharing solution. Such a synthetic data set shall resemble the original data without revealing identifiable private information. Till date, the prior focus on…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2025-07-23 Chaoyi Zhu , Jiayi Tang , Juan F. Pérez , Marten van Dijk , Lydia Y. Chen

In this paper, we propose a data privacy-preserving and communication efficient distributed GAN learning framework named Distributed Asynchronized Discriminator GAN (AsynDGAN). Our proposed framework aims to train a central generator learns…

Image and Video Processing · Electrical Eng. & Systems 2020-06-16 Qi Chang , Hui Qu , Yikai Zhang , Mert Sabuncu , Chao Chen , Tong Zhang , Dimitris Metaxas